Casey Jones Rides Again and Other Echoes of Liberty
A lively collection of 1960s era pieces praising courage and reform. It spotlights rail hero Casey Jones, East German escapee Harry Detering, and labor activism while critiquing Harvard’s stance on religious bias. Also notes on minority prejudices, nuclear-age humor, and anti-Franco refugee support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casey Jones
America
Ilinois Central
Casey
Harry Detering
Albrechtshof
West Berlin
Balance sheet 1961 ends with a bang on world and home
A kaleidoscopic year end column surveys 1961 turmoil from Goa to the UN and Berlin to Back home, noting unrest from radical right threats to Bardot and school funding fights. It weighs Soviet gains, Western Europe prosperity, and domestic debates while urging cautious optimism amid a turbulent era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nehru
Goa
Britain
United Nations
Menshikov
Earl Warren
France
Brigitte Bardot
Fletcher Knebel
Washington Post
B.C
Socrates
United Mine Workers Journal
Review of a Negro book amid tears and lynchings
The passage depicts a book review in which a young Negro woman leads white women crying as Belle Bennett sings. Emotions run high as the crowd joins in and the reviewer notes heart throbs in descriptions of lynchings, while critiquing tangled prose and the reviewer W. W. Steuton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Will
W. W. Steut
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jim Wolfe
United Brewery Workers
DAR
House Un-American Activities Committee
White Citizens Council
Birch Society
Justice Warren
Detering
Alton Levy
Khrushchev
Albrechotshof
Liberty
Freedom
Harvard
Harvard University
Edward Everett
Everett
Jordan
CARE
Phillips Brooks House
John Monro
George Bernard Shaw
Callah
AFL- Cio
Ohio
Harry Golden
Nevada
India
Sam Levenson
Harold Hadley
Spokane
Wash
U.S
Juan Perez Varela
Manuel Prieto Alba
Spain
U.S. Immigration Service
Workers Defense League
SS. Covadonga
US. Court of Appeals
Harrison Williams
N.J
Senate Judiciary Committee
Eastland
AFL Cio
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
Adlai Stevenson
United States
Mexico
Daughters of the American Revolution
Aflcio
Potomac
Peiping
Communist Party
Mao
Berlin
Moscow
Wall
Soviet Union
England
China
Dag Hammarskjold
Africa
Tshombe
Gizengs
Europe
Italy
Congress
Salarma
Antioch Bookplate CO
Yellow Springs
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